Haiti Study & Guide - AllRefer
* INTRODUCTION
* COUNTRY PROFILE: Haiti
o COUNTRY
o GEOGRAPHY
o SOCIETY
o ECONOMY
o TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
o GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
o NATIONAL SECURITY
* Haiti: Historical Setting
o SPANISH DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION
o FRENCH COLONIALISM
+ French Settlement and Sovereignty
+ Colonial Society: The Conflicts of Color and Class
o THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION
+ The Slave Rebellion of 1791
+ Toussaint Louverture
o INDEPENDENT HAITI
+ Christophe's Kingdom and P�tion's Republic
+ Boyer: Expansion and Decline
o DECADES OF INSTABILITY, 1843-1915
o THE UNITED STATES OCCUPATION, 1915-34
o POLITICS AND THE MILITARY, 1934-57
o FRAN�OIS DUVALIER, 1957-71
o JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER, 1971-86
* Haiti: The Society and Its Environment
o GEOGRAPHY
o POPULATION
+ Demographic Profile
+ Migration
+ Fertility and Family Planning
o SOCIAL STRUCTURE
+ The Upper Class
+ The Middle Class
+ Peasants
+ Urban Lower Class
o GENDER ROLES AND FAMILY LIFE
o THE LANGUAGE QUESTION
+ French and Creole
+ Changes in Language Use
+ Creole, Literacy, and Education
o RELIGIOUS LIFE
+ Voodoo
+ Roman Catholicism
+ Protestantism
o EDUCATION
+ Primary Schools
+ Secondary Education
+ Higher Education
o HEALTH
+ Nutrition and Disease
+ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
+ Health Services
+ Welfare
* Haiti: The Economy
o GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY
o ECONOMIC POLICY
+ Fiscal Policy
# Expenditures
# Revenues
+ Monetary and Exchange-Rate Policies
o LABOR
o AGRICULTURE
+ Land Tenure and Land Policy
+ Land Use and Farming Technology
+ Crops
# Cash Crops
# Food Crops
+ Forestry
+ Livestock and Fishing
o INDUSTRY
+ Manufacturing
# Assembly Manufacturing
# Domestic Manufacturing
+ Construction
+ Mining
+ Energy
o SERVICES
+ Banking and Financial Services
+ Transportation and Communications
+ Tourism
o FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS
+ Foreign Trade
+ Balance of Payments
+ Foreign Debt
+ Foreign Assistance
* Section - Haiti: Government and Politics
o BACKGROUND: FROM DUVALIER TO AVRIL, 1957-89
o THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
o THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM
+ Governmental Institutions
+ The Functions of the State
+ Urban Dominance, Rural Stagnation
o POLITICAL DYNAMICS
+ Power Maintenance
+ Army Politics: Force and Counterforce
+ The President as Strongman
+ Perceptions of Democracy
+ The Mass Media
o INTEREST GROUPS
+ The Tonton Makout Network
+ Political Parties
+ The Upper and the Middle Classes
+ Other Groups
o FOREIGN RELATIONS
* Section - Haiti: National Security
o THE MILITARY IN HAITIAN HISTORY
o ARMY POLITICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
+ Fran�ois Duvalier, 1957-71
+ Jean-Claude Duvalier, 1971-86
+ The Post-Duvalier Period
o THE ROLE OF THE ARMED FORCES
o MILITARY SPENDING AND FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
o ARMED FORCES ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE
o THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND PUBLIC ORDER
+ The Legal Framework
+ Public Order
* Appendices
o Appendix A. Tables
o Appendix B. Caribbean Basin Initiative
* Glossary
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